Direct and Open
Communication
Outcome Based Networking
Con
fl
ict Resolution and
Diplomacy
International Community
Building
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How Jinja met
Sentry — how I
met David
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2004
The Journey
Begins
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“Microsoft is
bad, let's use
Linux”
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hacked around on
phpBB for Ubuntu,
wanted to port it to
Python
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Python didn't have
the right tools
an itch to scratch:
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Jinja was born
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2007-03-26T17:48:20 have any of you looked into jinja?
2007-03-26T17:51:52 zeeg: me. but i don't count ;)
2007-03-26T17:56:38 zeeg: if you have questions fell free to poke me :)
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Group Django Errors
in a Database
an itch to scratch:
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Sentry was born
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commit 3c2e87573d3bd16f61cf08fece0638cc47a4fc22 (HEAD)
Author: David Cramer
Date: Mon May 12 16:26:19 2008 +0000
initial working code
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independent
projects, not
much in common,
but we kept
crossing paths
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went to the same
conferences
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used by the same
communities
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similar licensing
ideas
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endurance and
perseverance
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adjusting to
change
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I expected Jinja to
die a long time ago
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Projects adjust to
new environments
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JavaScript changed
things
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Licensing
Matters
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You can't force people to
contribute back
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Do you want people to
walk away?
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I want everybody
to use it
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A license is only as good
as your enforcement
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Non Monetary
Payo
ff
s
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got my
fi
rst job
via Open Source
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I found
international
relationships via
Open Source
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Sentry got its
fi
rst customers
via Open Source
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Sentry bene
fi
ts
and shares
contributions to
core technologies
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Money Matters
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maybe you need a
business model and
revenue stream
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not every Open Source
project must make money,
but make that call early
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services are easier to
monetize, libraries need
subsiziding
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consider license
restrictions to stay true to
your goals.
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Open Source in
Companies
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some things take a lot of
effort, and many folks
need to do it
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There are benefits to
collaboration, and very
few risks to a business
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Take a bold step and
Open Source internal tech
and start collaborating